This sketch of a small agricultural community (Homestead Heritage) in rural Texas briefly recounts a journey of discovery so remarkable that it became an exodus. The story begins in the slums of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen in 1973. It continues with a step-by-step transformation of city dwellers into a people of the land, an unfolding process that gradually encompassed all areas of life. These many steps of transformation finally came together in a mosaic that formed an entirely different cultural alternative. In the course of its journey, the community revived its roots in the 500-year-old Anabaptist tradition, developing sustainable agricultural and craft skills that they now teach to thousands of others. One recent visitor said, “This is a place where ordinary people working together do extraordinary things very well.” Some only dream of such a life, but this is a story to inspire “ordinary people” everywhere to believe that their dreams can become a reality, too.

Portrait of a Community: The History and Roots of Homestead Heritage - A Brief Survey

Adams, Blair

Colloquium Press

In what many consider to be the single most important event in human history, Jesus of Nazareth submitted willingly to His death on a cross, making no attempt to defend Himself. Consistent with His example, there are no recorded instances of physical resistance on the part of the early Christians in defense of themselves or their families for the first 175 years of the church's existence.Nonviolence: A Challenge to Today's Christianity poses serious questions to those desiring to follow in the steps of the Man who, when "He was reviled, did not revile in return," and "when He suffered?did not threaten" (1 Pet. 2:18-23). Scripture is used to demonstrate how a conviction to follow Christ's example of nonresistance ultimately becomes a test of authentic conversion.This book addresses the most common arguments for the use of violence and explores a number of hypothetical scenarios, revealing the contours of two opposing kingdoms-one ruled by brute force and the fear of death, the other empowered by a supernatural love that lays down its life for its friends. On the heels of the bloodiest century in the history of humankind, might there be a greater power than violence-one capable of ultimately overcoming death and the grave?

Nonviolence: A Challenge to Today's Christianity

This book grapples with realizing dreams that most no longer take seriously-dreams of making a radical shift to a more sustainable culture. But by the time you finish it, you, too, may be seeking out ways to take practical steps to make those dreams a reality for you, for your family and friends and for an ever-expanding circle of those encompassed in the "conspiracy of caring."

Life Against Death: The Struggle for Sustainable Communities — From Gandhi to Today

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once proclaimed, "It is not your love that sustains marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love." Thus he acknowledged a truth that today is, at best, ignored: it takes a form to hold and preserve the content of any relationship, whether in marriage, family, community or with God Himself.In an era when true and lasting love often seems little more than an elusive storybook fantasy, Love That Works seeks to rediscover the ancient Hebrew concept of chesed-the enduring form of covenant love. For many readers, this book has provided an entryway into a profound change of perspectives, which in turn has brought real changes to real relationships, bringing love out of the realm of abstraction and into the concrete reality of people, place and time. In short, it has revealed the contours of an actionable love-a love that works.

Love That Works: How the Ancient Hebrew Concept of Chesed (hĕ´-sĕd) Creates Marriages, Families and Communities of Covenantal Love that Endure

While it has been believed for centuries that reason stood superior to emotion, recent scientific discoveries have undermined many of the most widely held claims, revealing conscious thought processes to be ultimately controlled by the emotional center of the mind-the heart. But if emotion stands as our primary motivator, how are we to channel and control it in such a way as to preserve its crucial role in the activity of life while still overcoming the dark impulses of human hearts? So-o-o-o Emotional takes a brief look at this complex issue, pointing the way toward a God whose Mind alone is capable of reshaping and reordering human lives, thoughts and perspectives to such an extent that they might serve as expressions of His redemptive love to an increasingly hopeless world.

So-o-o-o Emotional: Quantum Physics, Neuroscience and the Acquisition, Ordering and Channeling of Deep and Transcendent Emotion

From the moment of birth, children in this society grow up in a home, social and educational environment permeated by digital technology. Ninety-five percent of teens are online, and an increasing number of infants under one year old now regularly use tablets and other mobile devices. What will this new technology-laden environment mean for our culture?Citing a wide variety of neurological, sociological and psychological research studies, this book considers the effects of this unprecedented change on the lives of the young, as well as detailing how these technologies are changing the way we think and radically altering our relationship with nature, with reality and with each other.

Changing Our Minds: How Digital Technology Affects Our Children and Disconnects Us from Reality and from Each Other

Toombs, S. Kay

Parenting & Relationships

We live at a time when more and more people face the challenges of chronic illness and aging, and when the notion of "dignity" is increasingly cited in the debate regarding how best to care for those who face these challenges. This book considers two radically different perspectives on dignity: the one grounded in the prevailing cultural view that emphasizes individual autonomy, a perspective that inevitably increases the sick person's experience of loss of dignity and that is causing a fundamental shift in attitudes towards the care of the sick and dying; the other grounded in the values of authentic Christian community, a context that nurtures an ethic of love and care that transforms the meaning of illness and suffering and affords dignity to all.

How Then Should We Die?: Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Death

Blair C. Adams was the founder of Heritage Ministries, an intentional Christian community movement now rapidly expanding around the world. Over the course of nearly 50 years, Blair authored over 250 titles, covering topics such as Christian community, family, faith, education, history and culture. Blair’s abiding purpose, both in his books and his ministry, was to participate in the creation of exemplary Christian communities where people could share the ineffable delight of experientially knowing God. His life's sacrifice and message lives on in the communities he inspired around the world and in the legacy of his writings. Presented here is a small sampling of those writings, intended to engage and inspire the reader with easily digestible, thought-stirring selections from his vast body of published works.

Blair C. Adams: Selected Quotes and Writings

Religion & Spirituality

The word "healing" shares the same root as the word "whole." This book explores what it means to heal and be healed, especially when facing the challenges of chronic illness. Healing relates to whole-person care, to the preservation of a sense of personal well-being, dignity and integrity. Even when physical cure is not possible, we can promote-and receive-healing. Healing is not a solitary endeavor. It involves all of us-family members, friends, caregivers, as well as health professionals.In reflecting on healing, it is vital to recognize how the values of contemporary culture inevitably shape the meaning of illness. The countercultural values of authentic Christian community provide an alternative perspective-one that transforms the meaning of illness and dying and that affirms personal worth in all circumstances.

Living at the Boundary: Healing and Incurable Illness

Toombs PhD, S. Kay

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Teach Me Your Way: Children's Scripture Songs from Homestead Heritage

Phillip Lancaster

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